What does it mean to imagine and implement climate justice? This interdisciplinary symposium is driven by the urgent need for a range of interventions and tools: critique, experimentation, imagination, pragmatics and policy. Bringing together thinkers from Europe and the U.S., speakers explore climate, energy, and infrastructure across networked urban and regional scales: from city to region to nation to planet. The symposium stages a conversation among scholars and practitioners who too rarely are in conversation, but have much to learn from each other. 

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Presenters

Chloe Ahmann (Anthropology, Cornell University)
Gretchen Bakke (Anthropology, Institute for Human Environment Transitions (IRI THESys) and the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt University in Berlin)
John Levi Barnard (English, UIUC)
Lauren Becker (City of Carbondale, IL)
Akima Brackeen (Architecture, UIUC)
Nina Idemudia (Center for Neighborhood Technologies, Chicago)
McKenzie Johnson (Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, UIUC)
Andy Jonas (Human Geography, University of Hull)
Jamie Jones (English, UIUC)
Graeme MacDonald (English, University of Warwick)
Rebecca Oh (English, UIUC)
Valentina Orioli (Urban Planning, Università di Bologna)
Omar Perez Figueroa (Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC)
Matt Soener (Sociology, UIUC)
Jorge Martin Sainz de los Terreros (Architecture, Humbolt University)
Scott Tess (City of Urbana)
 
For further information or if you need disability accommodation, please contact Jessica Greenberg (jrgreenb@illinois.edu) or Jamie Jones (jaljones@illinois.edu).

The symposium is made possible by the European Union Center’s funding as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, through the project: SMAART: Sustainable Methods for Adapting and Adopting Regional Technologies. It is generously co-sponsored by the Climate | Change Research Initiative at the Center for Advanced Study at UIUC.